Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1950

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After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

Jim Gerlach

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People always ask what's it like to grow up as a Kennedy. It's a family. It's big, it's large, it's amazing. You've got strong personalities with strong opinions. And we'll come out differently on some of those opinions.

Joe Kennedy III

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My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

Joan Fontaine

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I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

John Abraham

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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

Jello Biafra

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People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Maynard James Keenan

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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.

Michael Ignatieff

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When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

John Sandford

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It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Jobs

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It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Louis Garrel

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It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Jules Verne

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